“It’s been a huge blessing to have someone of his ability, character, and experience,” says boys basketball Head Coach Greg Zuffelato on this year’s newest addition to the starting line-up, Diesel Lowe. A senior this year, Lowe has already made his mark on the team as his name is frequently listed among the top scorers of each game. Lowe is currently averaging 14.2 points per game, second on the team behind Luke Zuffelato, and has a 57% field goal average, a close second to Carter Battle’s 59%. The team itself is currently ranked first in the Channel League at 7-1, with their overall record being 16-5. “We have a very mature, very talented team already, and I think he knew he would fit in really well with the guys and the way they played, and then we would be very successful because we already had a really good team,” Zuffelato explained on Lowe’s decision to join the squad. The addition of Lowe has panned out well for the Dons as they look to go undefeated for the remainder of the season.

Lowe’s ties to basketball run deep, and his love for the sport was apparent as he said, “I started playing basketball all my life…since birth, and I kept playing because it’s been a big part of me and when I play it’s really fun.” Prior to this year, Lowe competed with the best of the best as a player at Saint John Bosco High School. “With Saint Jo he’s played at the highest level in the country, playing the best teams, and so that experience coming to our team was really helpful and showed in the Sierra Canyon game where he scored the first 9 points, because he wasn’t scared of them,” Coach Zuffelato said of Lowe’s prior experience. When asked about his personal decision to transfer to SBHS, Lowe explained that he, “Came to Santa Barbara High School because my family moved and my dad’s business moved, so it was kind of out of my control, but I picked this school because of Coach Zuffelato and the coaching staff and the players.” 

With this being his first year as a Don, Lowe remains somewhat of an enigma around campus, though Zuffelato says, “He’s extremely well liked, he’s a great person…he’s quiet but everyone on the team likes him, he fits in great…. I feel like whatever environment he goes into he would fit in and do really well.” Lowe explained that something people don’t know about him is that he “surfs, that’s kind of like my side gig, that’s my hobby…I don’t really tell people about it, I just be chilling with it.” After the season is over, Lowe hopes to further his basketball career through college, saying, “I plan to continue playing after high school whether it’s Westmont because my brother goes there, or a few other schools I’m in contact with.” Although he has not yet made his final decision, one thing that’s for sure is wherever Lowe goes, he is bound to make his mark.